Pythonic gui format?

[Fuzzyman]

bruno at modulix wrote:
> Fuzzyman wrote:
> (snip)
>
> > You say you don't want an 'extra layer' between your GUI  and Python -
> > but your approach of using XML has the same drawback. Storing your 'GUI
> > configuration' in a text based format is a nice idea, but you will need
> > *something* to do the translation.
>
> Well, if the conf is valid Python, you've already get most of the
> 'something to do the translation' for free !-)
>

Except he can't use ordinary dictionaries because they don't preserve
order, which is one of his requirements...

Your trivial example below redone with ConfigObj syntax :

[window]

widgets = , # empty list

Code to read it :

from configobj import ConfigObj
gui_object = ConfigObj(filename)

All thebest,

Fuzzyman
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